"Stinking" Leeds

[jane666]

grumpybloke wrote: One set of grandparents lived in Bramley and I remember the smell from Hartley's (?) jam factory. My gran lived on cross Henley road and I remember the jam smell. My gran always used to say, if you knew how it was made you'd never eat it. Lol. Never put me off.

[Steve266]

Who remembers the animal rendering plant on Dewsbury Road at the junction of Wide Lane now that was an aroma on a warm summers day But on a sweeter note I used to work on Whitehall road when I first left school next to Soapy Joes ah the smell of Gibbs SR (First Ad on ITV) and various other bodily cleansing productsCan't rember the cycle but you always new what day its by the smell

[somme1916]

Steve266 wrote: Who remembers the animal rendering plant on Dewsbury Road at the junction of Wide Lane now that was an aroma on a warm summers day But on a sweeter note I used to work on Whitehall road when I first left school next to Soapy Joes ah the smell of Gibbs SR (First Ad on ITV) and various other bodily cleansing productsCan't rember the cycle but you always new what day its by the smell Certainly do Steve266........my dad would drill it into us to hold our noses at various stages on the bus run down Dewsbury Rd from Tingley due to a) Tingley Gas Works b) the animal rendering plant you mention above and c) the sewage/slurry beds that were situated where the White Rose Centre currently stands !

[Steve266]

Somme1916 Forgot about the gas works oh what joy and if you tell the kids now days they would not believe you

[Steve266]

While where on about Gas Works don't forget the one that made Town Gas at the bottom of Dewsbury road across from Tetley's could not see your hand in front of your face during the smog

[j.c.d.]

somme1916 wrote: Moorhouses jam factory on Old Lane,Beeston in the 60's and beyond...........that lovely aroma of newly made jam wafting over the area made you want to head for the bread bin. I lived near Moorhouses and one day all Beeston smelt of Strawberry Jam and the next week might be the aroma of Marmalade. some of the lads who worked in the factory used to come in to Cross Flatts club for a drink after finishing their shift and one old lad nicknamed "Moorhouse Bill" never used to bother going home to change and would stand at the Bar with his white boiler suit splattered with whatever flavour they had been using that day, his face and hands too.

[j.c.d.]

somme1916 wrote: Steve266 wrote: Who remembers the animal rendering plant on Dewsbury Road at the junction of Wide Lane now that was an aroma on a warm summers day But on a sweeter note I used to work on Whitehall road when I first left school next to Soapy Joes ah the smell of Gibbs SR (First Ad on ITV) and various other bodily cleansing productsCan't rember the cycle but you always new what day its by the smell Certainly do Steve266........my dad would drill it into us to hold our noses at various stages on the bus run down Dewsbury Rd from Tingley due to a) Tingley Gas Works b) the animal rendering plant you mention above and c) the sewage/slurry beds that were situated where the White Rose Centre currently stands ! The sewage beds were at the back of the Woodman pub and they had some sort of plastic over the windows to keep the pong out but in the summer some people used to sit outside at the back in the beer garden, the smell plus the flys Uggh.Higher up Dewsbury Rd. where the Animal rendering plant was they have built a pub and restaurant on the site. don't know whether they eliminated the smell but i could never fancy going in there for a meal. Great Posts round here, bringing back good memories.

[j.c.d.]

urban rambler wrote: The lovely smell of new mown grass on Sunday morning walk to Roundhay Park from Newtown in summer. (not a lot of green in Newtown other than the Newtown football ground) And there was always a 'beery' smell along Regent Street. Would that have been from Tetley's? That would have been from the Melbourne Brewery on Regent St. when Tetleys took it over they closed it down but they also had a lovely aroma of Hops (?) around the Dock St area from their own brewery

[String o' beads]

dogduke wrote: Geordie-exile wrote: Funny you should mention that today. There's a large Jewish community where I live and yesterday walking down the street I could smell bread baking. It took me straight back to being about six or seven years old and going down Mushroom Street one Christmas Day morning to get bread from Zermansky's bakery. .We must have been almost neighbours then.We lived up Lincoln Road in the Daisys untl about 62/63.Elliss's Jewish bakers was at the end of our street,the bread was asgood as it used to smell. Very close yes dogduke; on the Lincoln Green estate.I don't remember Elliss's though. I do remember the little paper shop behind Lincoln Towers. Was the lady that served called Betty? /vague

[tilly]

Steve266 wrote: While where on about Gas Works don't forget the one that made Town Gas at the bottom of Dewsbury road across from Tetley's could not see your hand in front of your face during the smog That would be Meadow Lane Gas Works that would be in the days when gas was made from coal.It was changed to an Hydro Carbon Reforming Plant in the mid nineteen sixties I worked there at that time has a fitter.